Louis Delsarte

Spirit Chasing Rainbows
The Art of  The Art of Louis Delsarte

A Closing Glimpse -  September 12th, 4-6 PM

Curator's Statement

There is always a spirit of movement in the art of Louis Delsarte, with colors and compositional elements taking the viewer through worlds that float between magic and realism. While many find it easy to settle on the beautiful figurative forms in his art, for me the real action takes place in the swirling brush strokes, stains, splatters and washes that uphold the figurative elements. Teetering on the void between figurative and abstraction, a Delsarte painting moves the eyes through a spatial carnival of colors that are a hallmark of Delsarte's mature work, colors and forms that vibrate with almost sentient life on the canvas and paper he has applied them to. From these initial layers Delsarte coaxes into being figurative elements that emerge like the sunrise from the horizon. Delsarte's sensual depiction of the human form in his work is reminiscent of the works of renaissance masters, and what is captured in the subject matter of his art can be seen as a Diaspora of cultural experiences. We start with a black and creole lineage running from Africa, Europe and the Caribbean world. From the roots of these artistic, cultural and spiritual influences we run through the Harlem Renaissance, the African American cabarets of Parisian exile, to the 1950'sand 60's hot civil rights summers of turmoil and the flower drenched 60's summers of love. The art of Louis Delsarte has always captured the pain, romance and poignant imagination of the American Dream and through that dream a universal language concerning the human condition. -Kevin Sipp, Curator,  Hammonds House Museum